This is for anyone that is a non-paying standard member that wants to be able to contact me.

This part of my blog is for anyone that wants to say something to me in complete Privacy - rather than posting anything in my public blog.

*________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________*Just so you know.. Any conversation you and I may have here in my private guestbook will stay private - only be visible to you and I. If you've never posted to someone's blog or guestbook before, don't let that stop you, it's easy...

Also, just so you know - this website does have a few rules to be aware of about messages sent in any blog or guestbook - No email addresses, no phone , nor any other kind of contact information. Along with whatever general common sense rules this website has for any kind of message sent to anyone on this website. Breaking the rules here may cause your message to not be delivered to me.

Messages sent may take a little time to actually be delivered on here. The same for any reply to you that I may post here. It's not as instant quick as email, but it's still a way to have contact.

Also I may not find your message right away. I don't come here every day. But do make sure -YOU- do come back here to my guestbook once in a while to look for a reply from me to you! If you don't find a reply, please try sending a message again. One of the website gremlins may have eaten your first message to me..

If this is new to you, you should find a box at the bottom that you can write to me in. If you don't see that box, go back up near the top of this page and click on the blue text with the thumbtack next to it that says "My Private GuestBook" - that should open my guestbook with a box at the bottom for you to write in..

I had noticed something recently while viewing member profiles. Maybe it’s just another website glitch? But I have my doubts about now. In viewing member profiles, I noticed I stopped seeing any, and all references to the last date the member had logged into their account.

A correction here - I know the display of a members join date on the members profile can be turned off by the member, in their account settings. And I know some members do turn off the display of the join date on their profile. But I thought it strange that I was no longer seeing the date of last visit on any profile…

I had also noticed that if someone peaked my interest , I could sent them a flirt, or hotlist them, and their last log-in date would be displayed in the list of profiles in my hotlist, or my flirts sent page.

Today - I notice all references to a members last log-in date – no longer display in either my hotlist, and my flirts sent page…

If this is not just another website glitch - to me, the implications of this are a bit large.

This means to me I will have no idea if a profile is abandoned, or not. if I were to write to a person, to try to contact them – I might well completely wasting all of my time and effort in trying to write them a creative and inviting message…

Not knowing if a profile had basically been abandoned by it’s owner would also help make it look like there are more people on the website – than their really are. But something like this is only more deception, by the parent company of all of the websites they run.

And at my expense, writing to profiles that may be abandoned. This gets more and more worthless, as a possible social website, as time goes on. Excepting the blogs here, of course. About the only place you may have any idea now – if the member is still active on one of the websites...

For me, the email/message system here is absolutely dysfunctional now. So many say they have complained to support - only to be told support is aware of the problem, and working to resolve it.

Maybe it's just not fixable though, or they just don't know how to fix it..

The email messaging system here is kind of important to the use of this website - I mean what good is a personals kind of website - if you can't have reliable contact with others? The IM chat here has never worked for me. As others have complained about - posts and messages in the groups and magazine just disappear. The list of issues with this website goes on...

Some people pay for memberships here, and some use earned points to enhance their membership here. I haven't heard anyone say that they have asked for refunds or credits for paid memberships to a website that is dysfunctional though.

I mean what is the point of paying, or using earned points to pay for enhancements - if the main core of the website is dysfunctional and unusable??

Maybe if lots of people started asking for refunds or credits for money or points paid because the service they are paying for is unusable - maybe that would eventually prompt a better resolution? To begin messing with their money might get a little more attention..

And if anyone decides to cancel a paid membership here, and become just a standard member because the service the website offers is pretty much unusable - make sure the website knows the reason you are cancelling your paid membership.

Just a thought that came to me last night.. When I thought to myself, why am I even trying to do this - it doesn't work..

Oh, and to anyone trying to send me messages via the email messaging system here. I may get notices that I have new messages waiting - but I cannot find those new messages in my mailbox here. Better post that message here, if you want me to ever have a chance to actually see it...